Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-23
MARYSVILLE AND VICINITY.
High Degree of Prosperity Enjoyed and
Still Brighter Outlook.


MARYsvILLE, April 2l, 1887.
EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN Never did the city
on the delta of the Yuba and Feather riv-
ers look better than on this lovely spring
morning. The $500 orange and lemon
trees in her yards and gardens are either in
full bloom or loaded with young fruit, and
everywhere there are banks of fragrant
flowers. The orchards and vineyards have
thrifty look and give promise of an
abundant return for the skill and labor be-
slowed upon them, and as far as the eye
can reach, from the Buttes, in Sutter
county, TO the Sierra foothills in Yuba
county the fields of grain make the farm
ers' heart glad. The assurance of good
crops of all kinds, with the prospective
high prices, has given an impetus to all
kinds of business.
The winter of Marysville's discomfort
is rendered glorious summer" by these
promises of prosperity. All over the State
many otherwise wellinformed people
think of this former mining entrepot, as a
fast-decaying place. Nothing can be
further from the truth. With the ready
adaptability characteristic of our California
people, the business men of this city, upon
the decline of placer mining in the
country around them, turned their
attention to the building up Of
manufactures and the encouragement of
agriculture, and in spite of difficulties that
would have discouraged less courageous
people, they have built up a business of
greater volume than is enjoyed by any
other place in the Sacramento valley north
of Sacramento city. Even your Queen
City could take a lesson from Marysville
in the matter of sidewalks. Where you
have dilapidatad plank sidewalks we'll
adapted TO make business for your sur
geons, here are artificial stone pavements
that are wellspring of delight to the
pedestrian.
The area of orchards and vineyards is
constantly increasing and crowding the
wheat fields. In the older times the
country around Marysville was noted for
its early and excellent fruit. Briggs and
Treat were among the noted fruit-raisers
in the State. Yesterday quoted the claim
State came from the Vacaville
district, and / was assured that
the claim was not founded upon
fact so far as this region is concerned.
The fruit men say that they send peaches,
apricots and small fruits to market as early
as do the people of Vacaville, and they
refer TO the fruit dealers of San Francisco
and Sacramento for veritication of their
assertions. If this is true, there is no finer
| field for the orchardist and vineyardist
than right here. 1t is fact that the
orchards and vineyards of the Vaca dis
| trict are veritable bonanZas, and all on ac-
count of their early fruit, whereby incom-
parably high prices are realized. If this
| region produces as early fruit and vege-
tables as the Vaca district. there should not
be wheat field in entire Yuba or Sutter
counties. 1t is to this that events are tend
| ing, and | prophesy that two years will see
much of its realization. Land by the side
| of the best orchards and VINEYARDS can
now be had for from $50 to $50 per acre,
and that is incomparably cheaper than the
same quality of land is selling for in So
noma, Napa, Solano, Yolo and Santa Clara
counties
Business here is unusually good; the
stocks of goods are large and the sales are
brisk. This city has one advantage over
most other places in this upper portion of
the State; the land is in comparatively
small holdings every farm has its family
that supports the institutions of the region,
and as "a consequence the manufacturers,
merchants, schools, churches and news
papers are tiourishing. There is room,
however, for ten fruit farmers with their
families where there is one family now,
| and that would be followed by CORE
spondingly increased prosperity. The
boom has not struck here yet, but there is
everything to make boom out of. Much
more could be said of this region, but these
notes are mere jottings by the way.
LATHAM